Vuelve el atractivo y elegante aventurero Albert Campion, en una trama criminal en la que se mezclan envenenamientos, cartas anónimas, médiums, certificados de defunción falsificados, merodeos nocturnos y ataudes que se desvanecen. En la señorial casa de la excentrica familia Palinode, nostalgica de un pasado en que la fortuna les sonreia, cuyos miembros, todos hermanos y hermanas, se comportan como si el tiempo no pasara, con una dignidad exagerada de clase, comiendo y bebiendo lo que encuentran por los parques solo para ahorrar, se producen una serie de muertes de lo mas sospechosas. Campion acepta a regañadientes el caso para hacerle un favor a su fiel lugarteniente, el antiguo delicuente Lugg, y trata de desentrañar un misterio que pone a prueba todas sus capacidades.
Londres está en peligro. Entre la espesa niebla de noviembre se esconde Jack Havoc, «el Tigre», un violento asesino acabado de salir de la cárcel para espanto de las autoridades y la población civil.
When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some complex family dynamics, to solve the case.
Private detective Albert Campions glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassands fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.
In a masterpiece of storytelling Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin.Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.
In this miscellany of villainy, our unconventional sleuth must contend with misbehaving debutantes, sinister smuggling rings, a Dowager Countess whos not all that she seems, an SOS message daubed in lipstick, a beleaguered New York socialite, and an elderly Egyptologist indulging in some bad behaviour...
Fleeing London for the supposed safety of Suffolk, Val and Campion come face to face with events of a perilous and puzzling nature - Campion might be accustomed to outwitting criminal minds, but can
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, theres only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the
John Lafcadios ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow - together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light. Private detective Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
After another body, private detective Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth... Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actr
On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancee, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together while the very fate of England is at stake. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion - but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the true queen of the classic murder mystery?Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death.
Agatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the true queen of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now hes a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang.
